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I'm a full time Linux user and a big fan but come on - claiming that minor updates don't randomly break things is pretty dishonest. It's true for all 3 major OS

• bhaak 8y ago
  Sure, it can happen on all systems. But Homebrew is not a good package manager. How about major breakage because of the installation of a new program? Like having installed programs that uses readline in version 6 and installing a program that needs readline in version 7? Homebrew will happily upgrade readline to version 7 and install the new program but thus silently breaking the programs using readline with version 6. Edit: Every program and library involved has been installed with Homebrew.
  • nikolay 8y ago
    It's not Homebrew that breaks but Apple for not caring about backward-compatibility. But honestly, Homebrew is a joke of a package manager, which, unfortunately, is the best on macOS.
    • bhaak 8y ago
      This time it's not Apple's fault. Every program and library involved has been installed with Homebrew.
      • nikolay 8y ago
        It actually is. Apple should embrace Homebrew or at least offer an alternative.
        • bhaak 8y ago
          Apple's alternative is using DMG. I'm the first to blame Apple for various stuff but you can't blame Apple for using OSX in a way that Apple hasn't intended and isn't supporting. If you're not happy with the pre-installed unixy stuff you are (still) free to add your own. Which Homebrew allows you to do in a very Apple way. That is, works mostly as intended and almost OOTB but if you are a power user you will soon run into various problems.